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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.122743
Category:Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-2417)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'autofs' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2015-2417 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'autofs' package(s) announced via the ELSA-2015-2417 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
[5.0.7-54.0.1]
- add autofs-5.0.5-lookup-mounts.patch [Orabug:12658280] (Bert Barbe)

[1:5.0.7-54]
- bz1263508 - Heavy program map usage can lead to a hang
- fix out of order call in program map lookup.
- Resolves: rhbz#1263508

[1:5.0.7-53]
- bz1238573 - RFE: autofs MAP_HASH_TABLE_SIZE description
- update map_hash_table_size description.
- Resolves: rhbz#1238573

[1:5.0.7-52]
- bz1233069 - Direct map does not expire if map is initially empty
- update patch to fix expiry problem.
- Related: rhbz#1233069

[1:5.0.7-51]
- bz1233065 - 'service autofs reload' does not reloads new mounts only
when 'sss' or 'ldap' is used in '/etc/nsswitch.conf' file
- init qdn before use in get_query_dn().
- fix left mount count return from umount_multi_triggers().
- fix return handling in sss lookup module.
- move query dn calculation from do_bind() to do_connect().
- make do_connect() return a status.
- make connect_to_server() return a status.
- make find_dc_server() return a status.
- make find_server() return a status.
- fix return handling of do_reconnect() in ldap module.
- bz1233067 - autofs is performing excessive direct mount map re-reads
- fix direct mount stale instance flag reset.
- bz1233069 - Direct map does not expire if map is initially empty
- fix direct map expire not set for initial empty map.
- Resolves: rhbz#1233065 rhbz#1233067 rhbz#1233069

[1:5.0.7-50]
- bz1218045 - Similar but unrelated NFS exports block proper mounting of
'parent' mount point
- remove unused offset handling code.
- fix mount as you go offset selection.
- Resolves: rhbz#1218045

[1:5.0.7-49]
- bz1166457 - Autofs unable to mount indirect after attempt to mount wildcard
- make negative cache update consistent for all lookup modules.
- ensure negative cache isn't updated on remount.
- don't add wildcard to negative cache.
- bz1162041 - priv escalation via interpreter load path for program based
automount maps
- add a prefix to program map stdvars.
- add config option to force use of program map stdvars.
- bz1161474 - automount segment fault in parse_sun.so for negative parser tests
- fix incorrect check in parse_mount().
- bz1205600 - Autofs stopped mounting /net/hostname/mounts after seeing duplicate
exports in the NFS server
- handle duplicates in multi mounts.
- bz1201582 - autofs: MAPFMT_DEFAULT is not macro in lookup_program.c
- fix macro usage in lookup_program.c.
- Resolves: rhbz#1166457 rhbz#1162041 rhbz#1161474 rhbz#1205600 rhbz#1201582

Affected Software/OS:
'autofs' package(s) on Oracle Linux 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
4.4

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-8169
73211
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73211
RHSA-2015:1344
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1344.html
USN-2579-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2579-1
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192565
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917977
openSUSE-SU-2015:0475
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00033.html
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